Skip to main content Skip to local navigation
Home » Posts tagged 'grant'

grant

Helping historians unlock treasures in billions of archived web pages

Helping historians unlock treasures in billions of archived web pages

TORONTO, June 29, 2017 − The University of Waterloo and York University have been awarded a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to make petabytes of historical internet content accessible to scholars and others interested in researching the recent past. The grant, valued at $610,625, supports Archives Unleashed, a project that will develop web […]

World Leading Vision Research Program Receives Canada’s Premiere Grant

World Leading Vision Research Program Receives Canada’s Premiere Grant

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Part of $120M multi-partner investment in York U’s VISTA program TORONTO, September 8, 2016 - Today, York University’s world class expertise in vision research is being recognized by the government of Canada with the nation’s most prestigious research grant. A $33.3 million Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF) grant will support the […]

York scientists partner with industry on $1.7 M grant for drug development

York scientists partner with industry on $1.7 M grant for drug development

TORONTO, April 27, 2016 – There is currently a major bottleneck in the development of biopharmaceuticals – drugs manufactured from biological sources – but York U researchers in partnership with Canadian pharmaceutical companies have received more than $1.7 million to speed things along. The funding, from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada […]